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CUTTS: OK. So, this is a fun question.I seeded the Google moderator with the question:
Do you want to make any predictions for?
And they got 37 votes up and 36 votes down, but I get to break the tie so I’m going to go ahead and talk about it for a little bit.
Historically, Google is good at several different things. But some of the stuff that we’re especially good at is comprehensiveness, relevance, freshness, how fast we can index information, and the sort of speed that we’re able to return the search results and the sort of user experience.
I think we’re going to keep drilling down on all of those areas.
We’re going to keep working on our comprehensive. We’re going to keep pushing the relevance line higher and higher.
We’re going to try to return information, basically, in real-time where you can do a search and almost immediately be able to search for it and find it.
Now, that’s a challenge because you want it to be relevant as well. You don’t want to just find whatever the last person who talked about a current event, what they said.
You want to find the important stuff when you’re digging around in the real-time stream. And I think we’re going to keep working on different changes to our user interface. We wouldn’t say that we’re done at any point.
We’re going to keep running experiments. So, I think that’s what the future holds for Google.
I think for the Web, the trend that I see in SEO continues to be this fork in the road where there’s hacking and malware and illegal stuff that’s going on, and so SEOs have to ask themselves, “Do I want to go down this route where things are potentially illegal, where I could go to jail if I were to host malware or hack sites to do malware? Or do I want to go more towards the white hat path?”
And sometimes it feels like it takes longer but, you know, you don’t want to get the overnight drive-by sort of wins that don’t last very long.
They don’t stand the test of time. And if you take that path, you’re more likely to be competing with people who are potentially doing illegal things, like hacking sites.
So, I think that fork in the road will become more clear. We’ve already seen hacking continue to be more of an issue in 2009 and I think it will be even more so in 2010. So, when we look at our stats about what people access in the webmaster documentation, my site got hacked, for example, and the last little bit had a real spike and people looking at that article.
So, it’s definitely a trend. It will definitely continue to be a trend where a lot more hacking and then a lot more malware happens, but we’ll keep tackling it.
The best thing you can do is keep your server patched. Make sure that you stay up-to-date, and hopefully, maybe by the end of 2010 we’ll see the light at the end of the tunnel on that particular trend.
Quick Answer: Return information real-time, UI changes, hacking websites will still be a trend